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'So little planning': Trump mocked as Mexico refuses to let deportation flight land (www.rawstory.com)

submitted 4 weeks ago by thelucky8@beehaw.org to c/politics@beehaw.org

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Mexico refused a U.S. military plane access to its airspace when flying migrants to Guatemala. And as American Immigration Council senior fellow Aaron Reichlin-Melnick noted, another Central American country appears to have also not allowed the United States to fly over its airspace, given the flight's unusually circuitous route.

"This deportation flight had to go all the way around the Yucatan first, and then it went through Costa Rica, suggesting Honduras may also have denied permission," Reichlin-Melnick posted to Bluesky. He observed that countries declining to accommodate the U.S. by granting it access to its airspace could be a result of them perceiving his use of military C-130 planes "as an insult."

As Virginia Commonwealth University associate political science professor Michael Paarlberg wrote [...], carrying out deportations requires both the country deporting migrants and the country accepting them to coordinate.

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"It should be obvious, but doesn’t seem widely understood that the US can’t unilaterally deport people," Paarlberg explained. "This gives those countries a degree of leverage over the US if they simply refuse, as Mexico just did."

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[–] astronaut_sloth@mander.xyz 35 points 4 weeks ago (4 children)

To be fair, that's how some of the nazi concentration camps started. A lot of countries wouldn't take the deported Jewish people, so the nazis had to come up with another "solution." Unless something changes, this is where we're heading, and it is beyond frightening.

[–] ftothe3@lemm.ee 30 points 4 weeks ago

That's the point he's making...

[–] GeeDubHayduke@lemmy.dbzer0.com 8 points 4 weeks ago

So, history... repeats? Rhymes? As president musk said, i did Nazi that coming.

[–] InevitableList@beehaw.org 5 points 4 weeks ago

Britain was the first country to use concentration camps. The Nazis stole the idea from us.

[–] baggins@beehaw.org 1 points 4 weeks ago

Belsen started as a place to hold political prisoners and other 'undesirables', then Polish and (after Hitler had had enough.of Stalin) Russian POWs.